Chapter 2105: Distant Ancient Shadow
Although he couldn't see Li Suo's expression clearly, Yun Che could still distinctly perceive her confusion.
"It's nothing, just a casual remark." Yun Che immediately composed his expression, looking serious, then suddenly sighed with emotion: "You're also unlucky, to have fallen into my hands. The Life Creation God, the most compassionate and sacred existence between heaven and earth, forced to accompany me in committing evil deeds in this abyssal world."
"If you were to recover all your past knowledge and memories, I'm afraid you would hate to use your Creation Divine Power to turn me into light and dust."
Li Suo's hand paused slightly, then she said softly: "I can vaguely remember some old acquaintances, but I can't recall what I used to look like. As for the current me... the emotions I feel, the knowledge I gain, the world I perceive—all of it comes from you."
"I was lonely for a long time, so I fear solitude. Your appearance freed me from a loneliness that seemed endless, so I can feel that my soul is close and grateful to you. And you, ever since you came to this world, the emptiness in your soul has been growing day by day..."
"Stop, stop, stop, no need to say more." Yun Che quickly cut off her soft voice: "I am now the Mist Sovereign who has shaken the entire Abyss, how majestic and commanding! I only have this tiny bit of emptiness in my heart, yet you still have to mention it."
"..." The Light Divine Radiance remained infinitely warm. Li Suo seemed to ponder for a long time before quietly saying: "I will learn to correct myself."
"Hmm..." Yun Che raised his eyes with slight surprise, then suddenly smiled faintly. The sense of loneliness that Li Suo could not escape from perceiving seemed to lighten inexplicably: "I suppose... from ancient times to the present, no one has ever seen such an obedient Creation God like me."
Li Suo: "..."
Just then, Yun Che's eyes suddenly narrowed, and he sat up sharply.
"This time's 'prey' has finally arrived."
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Northern Divine Region, Yan Mo Realm, Eternal Dark Bone Sea.
Black mist swirled here. Even though all the Eternal Dark Magic Crystals had long been moved away by Yun Che, the density of dark aura here remained the highest in the world.
Chi Wuyue had been here for several hours, with no Demon Maidens following her. Before her stood the very black stone tablet that she had hardly left her side during this time.
Rip!
The barrier was torn open rather roughly. A section of ankle as white as snow came into Chi Wuyue's line of sight. She lifted her gaze and said somewhat helplessly: "Aren't you supposed to be the Fantian Shen Di? Why do you keep running over here to see me?"
Qianye Ying'er was about to speak when Chi Wuyue interrupted her: "No need to say anything. There is no news about him whatsoever. And you should know that he has no way to send any message back."
"But..." Qianye Ying'er still refused to give up: "Didn't you say you gave him a part of the Nirvana Wheel Demon Soul? At least it's a Demon Emperor's soul, maybe..."
"Unfortunately, no." Chi Wuyue rather cruelly shattered Qianye Ying'er's pitiful hopes.
With all expectations shattered, Qianye Ying'er's aura instantly became much gloomier and more irritable. She glanced at the stone tablet in front of Chi Wuyue and said curtly: "Did you come all the way to the Eternal Dark Bone Sea just for this broken tablet? It's been so long; if it really held some secret, you would have found it by now."
Chi Wuyue shook her head gently: "Although my Nirvana Wheel Demon Soul cannot resonate with it, I can always sense that something is hidden within. I've tried dozens of methods in various environments, but still found nothing."
Qianye Ying'er crossed her arms and said casually: "Even though you obtained it in the place where you got the Nirvana Wheel Demon Soul, that doesn't mean it must be something related to the Nirvana Wheel Demon Clan. If you really can't let it go, why not... try smashing it to pieces?"
"If it works, good. If not, you won't have to worry about it anymore. Done and dusted."
"I knew it wouldn't be a good suggestion." Chi Wuyue smiled faintly: "It's indeed very likely not something from the Nirvana Wheel Demon Clan. The three characters 'Pan Xiao Die' engraved on it are also proof of that. What I can't let go of is why a stone tablet that likely doesn't belong to the Nirvana Wheel Demon Clan would exist where the remnants of the Nirvana Wheel Demon Soul were left, and preserved so perfectly."
Speaking of this, she suddenly lifted her gaze, and a strange light flashed in her demonic eyes as she looked at Qianye Ying'er.
Qianye Ying'er: "Hmm?"
"Ying'er," Chi Wuyue reached out, her fingertip touching Qianye Ying'er's snow-white finger: "Lend me your blood!"
Qianye Ying'er was suspicious, but did not resist.
A drop of blood bloomed on her fingertip, and Chi Wuyue lightly sprinkled it onto the dark stone tablet.
Qianye Ying'er's words reminded her that Qianye Ying'er possessed the Demon Emperor's blood given to her by Yun Che back then.
The Jietian Mo Di possessed the purest dark profound force among the four Demon Emperors. Her demon blood could accommodate any dark profound force in the world. The calamity demon calamity performed with Jietian demon blood could also amplify all other dark forces... including the three Demon Emperors.
What the Nirvana Wheel Demon Soul could not awaken, perhaps the Jietian demon blood could...
Buzz!
The moment the blood drop touched the stone slab, the slab suddenly burst into a thick layer of dark light.
"Success!" Chi Wuyue exclaimed softly, having not held much hope. Qianye Ying'er also parted her lips slightly, clearly surprised.
The dark light coiled around the stone slab. After a long time, something seemed to scatter on the slab, and then profound light projected out, casting an exceptionally clear ancient scene.
"A projection!?" Chi Wuyue and Qianye Ying'er exchanged glances, both seeing the shock and gravity in each other's eyes.
Within the projection was a dark place. Even across such an immeasurably distant ancient time, one could still feel a soul-pressing demonic might.
A woman in a black dress appeared in the projection. Although her face could not be seen clearly, just her figure and the boundless nobility she naturally exuded made anyone believe she must have possessed peerless grace.
Another male figure appeared in the projection. He wore a blue robe, his hair like the dark night, his eyes like an abyss, and his features were extraordinarily demonic and handsome. When he raised his eyes, the gaze he cast was arrogant enough to exclude even heaven and earth, but when it touched the woman in the black dress, it instantly transformed into a tranquil deep pool.
The black-dressed woman stopped and then heavily knelt to the ground.
The blue-robed man's expression froze, and then his infinite nobility and pride all turned into flustered panic: "Xiaodie, you... what are you doing?"
"Brother Nie, I beg you... I beg you to help me," the woman spoke, every word tinged with tears.
The blue-robed man hurried forward to help her up, but the woman remained kneeling. Flustered and at a loss, he said: "You... don't cry. Whatever happened, I will help you. Get up quickly."
But the woman refused to rise, because she knew how selfish and excessive her request was: "The Zhutian Shen Di... he wants to kill Brother Mosu!"
Upon hearing the name "Mosu," the blue-robed man's pupils trembled sharply for an instant.
"The Zhutian Shen Di wants to personally sink Brother Mosu into the Abyss of Nothingness... He has already announced this to the entire divine race with his divine voice. The Zhutian Shen Di has a very stubborn character and never goes back on his word, especially not a world-proclaiming divine voice."
"Just now, the Zhutian Shen Di has taken Brother Mosu to the Abyss of Nothingness! He will die... He will really die..."
The woman's voice carried a pain that pierced the marrow.
The blue-robed man's pupils lost color, and he said weakly: "That's a matter of the divine race. Moreover, how powerful is the Zhutian Shen Di? If he wants to execute his own son, no one can save him. And for us demon race..."
He wanted to say that Mosu was the strongest god of the younger generation of the divine race. If Mosu died, it would only benefit the demon race, which was incompatible with the divine race... But facing the woman whose heart had fallen into an abyss and who was in unbearable pain, he ultimately could not bring himself to say it.
"No, there is a way to save him!"
The woman crawled forward on her knees, desperately grabbing the blue-robed man's robe: "Brother Nie, I beg you to lend me the 'Nie Mo Inverse Wheel Bead' temporarily. The Pan Ming Void-Breaking Mirror is on me. Using the magic bead to forcibly stagnate the wheel of time, and the Nether Mirror to pierce the void, even from the Zhutian Shen Di's hands, we can surely rescue Brother Mosu."
The blue-robed man's body shook, and he exclaimed in shock: "Xiaodie, you... are you crazy!? Do you know what you're saying!?"
"That is the Zhutian Shen Di, the most powerful among the divine race, and the Creation God who least tolerates our demon race! Do you know the consequences if we fail!? If the Nether Mirror and the magic bead fall into the hands of the divine race, the consequences would be unimaginable, and you would become the eternal sinner of the demon race... All for a mere son of the divine race!"
"I... am indeed crazy... But... but..."
Drip...
Drip, drip...
The sound of tears falling, even across such a long span of years, was still clear enough to break hearts: "He is my Mosu... I cannot... I cannot watch him die... I cannot..."
The blue-robed man's gaze was dazed... The Pan Xiaodie he knew, the one he admired, had a fortitude and pride surpassing all male demons, and her temperament was as violent as demonic flames.
Yet now, for a divine race man, she knelt before him, weeping so heart-wrenchingly.
"You should... go beg your father..." The blue-robed man's voice gradually became pained as well.
The black-dressed woman shook her head: "Father never approved of him... He would never agree. He even wanted to imprison me. If not for having the Nether Mirror on me and forcing my escape, I would have been utterly hopeless..."
"Since you know it's not tolerated, even if you save him, what future... can you have?"
The black-dressed woman murmured: "He and I made a pact. If heaven and earth can tolerate us, we will work together to break through any shackles, any trials. If heaven and earth ultimately cannot tolerate us... we will flee this heaven and earth, to seek and build a [Paradise] that belongs only to us."
The blue-robed man's body swayed.
"I will... bring him back to the demon race. If Father cannot tolerate him, if the demon race cannot tolerate him, I will... cripple his divine power, make him forever no threat to the demon race, and keep him protected by my side forever."
"If still intolerable... we will dissipate all our power, go to a distant lower realm, and find a paradise where no one can find us."
The blue-robed man slowly closed his eyes, his expression unclear whether it was pain or struggle.
"The Nie Mo Inverse Wheel Bead is not only the most powerful time magic artifact of our Nie Wheel Demon Clan, but also the clan-guarding magic artifact of our entire demon race. It cannot have any mishap... I cannot entrust it to you."
"Brother Nie..."
"Say no more." The blue-robed man turned around sharply, words seeping through gritted teeth: "Absolutely impossible."
Although only the black-dressed woman's back could be seen, the sudden gloom in her aura made Chi Wuyue and Qianye Ying'er feel as if they had witnessed her pupils losing all color in an instant.
She knelt quietly for a long time. Finally, she slowly rose, uttering a weak whisper: "I'm sorry, Brother Nie. It was me... who made too selfish a request... In the future, please take good care of yourself, and never repeat my mistakes."
With those words, she spun around sharply... but was firmly grabbed by an arm.
"What are you going to do?" The blue-robed man's gaze was almost ferocious: "Are you going to save him with just the Nether Mirror?"
The black-dressed woman's voice was soft, but every word was resolute: "If he lives, I live. If he dies, I die."
"..." The blue-robed man turned his head away, and it took a long time to extinguish the sharp pain in his eyes. He said in a deep voice: "I only said I cannot give you the magic bead, not that I won't help you."
He raised his hand, and a magic bead emitting a strange dark light appeared in his palm: "You are not of the Nie Wheel Demon Clan; you can barely control the magic bead at best, far less skilled than I. So, I will go with you."
The black-dressed woman turned her head, staring blankly at the blue-robed man, then gently closed her eyes: "Thank you, Brother Nie. Your kindness to me, I will never be able to repay in this life."
The tearful soft voice reached his ears, but the blue-robed man's expression changed drastically, because he found that his entire body could no longer move, and even his profound force could not be released from his body.
This was... spatial confinement from the Pan Ming Void-Breaking Mirror!
"Xiaodie, you... what are you doing!"
The black-dressed woman reached out and took the mist-shrouded magic bead from the blue-robed man's hand.
"Xiaodie... Xiaodie! Don't do anything foolish!" The blue-robed man's pupils dilated, his voice infinitely terrified: "Release me quickly! I've already agreed to go with you... Release me quickly!"
The black-dressed woman slowly retreated, her voice sorrowful: "I know what I'm doing, but I cannot, no matter what, watch him be buried in the Abyss of Nothingness... This is the sin of him and me; I cannot drag you into it."
Her cheek turned toward the projection's direction: "This projection stone has already recorded everything just now. Whether I succeed or fail, it can prove that I took the magic bead from you by force, and that you had nothing to do with it."
"Brother Nie, I will be back soon... Then, together with Brother Mosu, I will beg for your forgiveness and accept any punishment you decree."
Her black sleeve swept, and the space silently split open. She stepped into it, her figure vanishing instantly, and the spatial rift silently disappeared, as if it had never existed.
"Xiaodie! Xiaodie! Someone come quickly... Father... Elder Nie Yuan... Xiaodie is in danger... Hurry... Hurry to Tai Chu Divine Realm to save Xiaodie!"
"Ahhh—!!"
The projection's final image was the nearly despairing scream of the Nie Wheel Crown Prince.
The projection faded.
Chi Wuyue and Qianye Ying'er reacted quite differently.
"A lovesick fool and another lovesick fool?" Qianye Ying'er seemed disdainful, pursing her lips: "This complete preservation from ancient times is just... Huh?"
She noticed Chi Wuyue's unusual demeanor and frowned sharply: "Demon Empress, what have you found?"
Chi Wuyue sighed softly, her voice heavy: "The Nether Mirror... the magic bead... My earlier guesses have all come true."
She sighed with emotion, wondering what thoughts the Nie Wheel Crown Prince had when he sealed this projection into the stone tablet...
"Come true... what does that mean?" Qianye Ying'er's mood also grew heavy.
"It means..." Chi Wuyue extended her finger and gently touched the three characters "Pan Xiao Die" on the dark stone slab: "His opponent is the son of the Creation God."
"And moreover, it is the son of the Creation God wielding the two most powerful magic artifacts."
"..." Qianye Ying'er's beautiful eyes slowly widened in terror, and she remained speechless for a long time.